Explain the concept of stored procedures and how they are used in?

ADO.NET.

A stored procedure is a precompiled set of SQL statements that are stored and executed

on the database server. They can improve performance and security by encapsulating

complex operations.

In ADO.NET, stored procedures are executed using the SqlCommand object, where the

CommandType property is set to CommandType.StoredProcedure.

Example:

SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("GetCustomerDetails",

connection);

command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CustomerID", customerId);

SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();